The Bhagavad Gita: The Battlefield Sermon
A god tells a warrior to kill his family — and the argument changes everything
On the morning of the greatest battle in Indian mythology, the warrior Arjuna drops his bow and refuses to fight — and his charioteer, who happens to be God, talks him back into it. The Bhagavad Gita is a 700-verse argument about duty, death, and free will that was never meant to stand alone, yet became the most influential text in Hindu philosophy and a strange favourite of figures from Thoreau to Oppenheimer.
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